Porthleven Watercolour Class

On a rather muggy day yesterday we held our Stormy Seas Watercolour Class with Claire.

I have to start with the photo above as this is a lovely new Beginner and her first attempt at Watercolour!  Never be afraid to join us and give painting a go, we have small groups and the most amazing tutor to teach you.

We were shown some beautiful images from Porthleven in Cornwall, which has fantastic waves and stormy seas in the winter.

A Stormy painting at Treetops always includes toothbrushes and masking fluid flicked across the painting!

I'm sure you'll agree the paintings are all incredibly atmospheric.

I logged onto a webcam that sent a live stream from Porthleven, lovely and calm yesterday of course, but if you want to take a look it's here

A photographer called Carla Regler has some amazing photographs taken in Porthleven, Cornwall and all round the country, I can definitely recommend making a cuppa and visiting the gallery section on her website

Below is our own Gallery of some of the finished paintings mounted.

All that concentrating requires lots of food!

We had a variety of salads today served with a spinach, nutmeg and roasted red pepper roulade.

Claire will be teaching at Marlborough Summer School next and will be back at Treetops for a lovely bright and breezy Summer Florals at the end of August

Find out more HERE

Summer Fun at Treetops

The beautiful bluebells in the woods at Treetops

Join us in the woods this summer for our Woodland Retreat Days with Laura.

We can't wait, a truly relaxing day absorbed in nature where we will enjoy a blend of meditation, breath work, gentle stretching, sound, creativity and a delicious plant based lunch.

It will be a peaceful and grounding day to rebalance your mind and body.

(And if you want to hug a tree I have loads! 😁)

The Woodland Retreat days run from 10am - 2pm.

£65

The dates are:

9th June

(back up day 23 June)

2nd July

(back up day 8 July)

17th September

(back up day 24th September)

We have put back up days into the diary incase of really bad weather, so please check you can make those before booking)

For more information please click here

On Friday 30 June we have Summer Cookery with me, a really fun demo style class where I share 7-8 recipes with you for the Summer using delicious seasonal ingredients along with plenty of ideas to help you with inspiration for cooking for friends and family.

You will be able to taste the food as it's made, and we will explore presentation ideas, look at what can be prepared ahead of time, whilst enjoying a refreshing summer drink recipe.

We have two classes on the day, choose from

10am - 1pm

or

7pm - 10pm

£50

You will receive a recipe booklet of everything created to take home with you after the class.

Book Summer Cookery Here

We have Claire here in August for a bright and beautiful Summer Florals Watercolour Class, master skills in painting loose and free, keeping vibrancy in your paints and feel happy and cheerful!

The class runs from 9:30am - 3pm and costs £85, this includes all of your materials, a 2 course lunch with a glass of wine and refreshments throughout the day.

All other Claire Art classes are now on the website for you to see

Art Class Dates Here

We'd love to see you!

If you are unable to join us in person at Treetops, please have a look at our great library of Online Art Workshops with Claire

We currently have a really good rhododendron watercolour online class, which covers skills in placement, colour and negative painting, hard and soft edges.

All of our Online Art Workshops cost £15.

Don't forget we also have a great library of Yoga Online Workshops, which once downloaded are yours to keep, filmed with Rachel we have a mix of seasonal yoga, hatha, yin and also specialist workshops in Chair/Seated Yoga and Yoga for Stress, Fatigue and Burnout.

All Online Yoga is HERE

Our beautiful Treetops Wellbeing Candle is lovely to light during the summer, the gorgeous geranium smell is so pretty, it also has warm woods and lavender in the mix.

It makes a great gift too, have a look in our Art Materials and Wellbeing Shop for other ideas.

Poppies Watercolour

A bright and beautiful day yesterday as we painted Poppies in Watercolour with Claire.

There were plenty of poppy photographs to choose from, so everyone could choose their own composition and sketch it out with pencil, ensuring that one of the poppies was the star of the painting.

Using masking fluid the artists outlined the poppies and coloured in their seed heads.

Followed by a really bright first wash full of colour, with dashes of red to be out of focus poppies in the background.

Claire teaches in a step by step style and due to our small groups you receive plenty of attention and support with your painting.

We stopped for lunch and wine, today the menu was cajun chicken with a mexican quinoa salad, served with slow roasted tomato, olives and pine nuts.

Here are some of the beautiful paintings of Poppies ...

The two ladies below were beginners and new to Treetops, look at their amazing paintings, absolutely brilliant!

Thank you to everyone for coming, it was a lovely lovely day.

Latest September News from Treetops

Hello Everyone
We've missed you

Thank you to all of you who have kept in touch during our closed period, it's been very strange not having you at Treetops for our classes.

We will be staying closed a little while longer whilst things settle down from Covid, as I want you all to be able to enjoy your relaxing Treetops day in the 'good old days' style!

I hope you've all managed to stay well and busy, perhaps picked up a new hobby or two? I've been mastering some jigsaws and making pictures with shells from my trips to Cornwall.

Claire and I have got together a few times and we are working on something fantastic to share with you shortly!

Keep an eye on your emails, the Treetops website, blog and facebook for when we make our announcement.

If you have created some artwork during lockdown and you would like to share it with us, I will be putting together a blog post shortly and would love to have a photo of it.

Best wishes Emily

News from Lockdown ...

Hello Everyone

Long time no see.

If you are missing the gardens at Treetops, here are some photos to show you what's currently blooming. Bluebells, blossom and wisteria with the rhododendrons on their way.

We are together as a family and coping OK. As you can imagine, I'm cooking lots, reading, crocheting and when the hayfever isn't too bad I'm in the garden.

Here are some ideas to share with you:

If you are missing Claire Warner Artist and your painting, she has sent this to you: "SAA members can access my SAA live workshops through the community area"

https://community.saa.co.uk/vod/…

Non members can have a free 30 day trial.

https://www.saa.co.uk/info/vod-free-trial/

For those missing Rachel Windsor Yoga she has some great Zoom online classes via
 The Studio at Living Saucha, I can really recommend the relaxing Yin class and the Hatha for getting a bit more of the blood flowing.

Papercutting Lucy Dorothy has some beginners kits available on her etsy page for you to have a go at.

If you enjoy crochet or knitting, please make some squares or small blankets for the charity Woolly Hugs all details are on their website.

Linzi The White Horse Flower Company our Floral tutor, has been putting together a podcast which I'm sure you'll enjoy "The English Florist" by Lindsey Kitchin.

Further afield I have been loving Harriet on Instagram who runs De Winton Paper co, she has a great new book of watercolour painting, based on all things floral. She does paint alongs and tutorials via instagram.

If you are missing your shopping therapy B the lifestyle shop is busy with a shop move in Newbury and can't wait to re-open, in the meantime Em and her team are busy sending out online orders.

Colline's Kitchen Newbury is still making and baking delicious food, with a delivery option and is great at free from food. And if you are after fresh fruit and veg then look no further than Fisher of Newbury, we've been using them for several weeks now in lockdown.

If you or anyone in your family are feeling anxious I can really recommed Breathpod, he does some great sessions on instagram and zoom.

For children and young adults Young Minds is a great resource for support.

Other than that I spend my time looking at insta photos of Cornwall, 
St Ives and small animals!!

Stay safe, stay home, and sending love x